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Re: your malloc patches
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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
June 15, 2003 14:31
Subject:
Re: your malloc patches
Message ID:
20030615213058.GP469614@kosh.hut.fi
> >> AIX compilation falls on that (the above AIX result about modifiable
> >> lvalues I got by removing that include and rerunning "make depend").
> >>
> >> (4) Tru64 compiles but then miniperl fails an assertion (a 64-bit problem?):
> >
> >Not a purely 64-bit problem since IRIX with "cc -64" is happy.
>
> You've come up with something that enables IRIX to work with -Dusemymalloc?
> I'm surprised, and impressed... be forewarned that it is likely to vary with
Ooops. You are right. IRIX still disables mymalloc, for the below reasons.
> versions of IRIX, including within IRIX 6.5.x, and on different processors,
> and that IRIX problems with -Dusemymalloc often pop up in ways that aren't
> always caught by the standard Perl testsuite (coredumps on later -
> especially large/long-time-running - programs).
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